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Achieving Sustainable Energy Security : 2030 Outlook for ASEAN, People Republic of China and India

Fan, Ying - 2015

of Asia and the world economy — during the last five decades has caused significant strains on their scarce resources …

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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour : Re-Evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy

Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2021

This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....

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Food for Fuel : The Effect of U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Helene; Ural … - 2021

RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a …, sugar and meat and dairy, which together provide almost 70% of Indian food calories. Our model predicts that world prices … losses are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …

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Government Decentralization and International Government Performance

Goel, Rajeev K. - 2016

Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual responses from more than a hundred countries about public's perceptions of government's performance along various dimensions to study the relative influences of different types of...

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Returns to ICT Skills

Falck, Oliver - 2016

How important is mastering information and communication technology (ICT) in modern labor markets? We answer this question with unique data on ICT skills tested in 19 countries. Our two instrumental-variable models exploit technologically induced variation in broadband Internet availability that...

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Membership has Its Privileges - The Effect of Membership in International Organizations on FDI

Dreher, Axel - 2010

We argue that membership in International Organizations (IOs) is an important determinant of FDI inflows. To the extent that membership restricts a country from pursuing policies that are harmful to investors, it can signal low political risk. Using data over the 1971-2005 period, we find that...

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Does Membership in International Organizations Increase Governments' Credibility? Testing the Effects of Delegating Powers

Dreher, Axel - 2008

This paper analyzes whether nation-state governments can increase their credibility by becoming members of international organizations. Credibility is an important asset because it determines the real interest rate and is expected to have an important impact on investment and growth. It is...

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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector : How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2016

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 …

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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions

Arezki, Rabah - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...

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Cross-Country Differences in the Effects of Oil Shocks

Peersman, Gert - 2014

We compare the economic consequences of several types of oil shocks across a set of industrialized countries that are structurally very diverse with respect to the role of oil and other forms of energy in their economy. We find considerably different effects across countries, which crucially...

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